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  2. Of the population of children with disabilities, 38% (58,500) reported receiving special education services. Many children who receive these services require them for more than one type of limitation.

    • Access to specialized aids
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    • Help with everyday activities received by children with disabilities
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    • Household income
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    Parents or guardians of children with disabilities were asked whether their child used some form of specialized aids and services to help the child with daily functions, such as hearing, seeing, speaking, walking, learning, and so on. Such specialized aids and services include hearing aids, wheelchairs, leg or arm braces, voice amplifiers, Sign lan...

    Children whose family's employment situation was affected

    The Participation and Activity Limitation Survey uses the World Health Organization’s (WHO) framework of disability provided by the International Classification of Functioning (ICF). This framework defines disability as the relationship between body structures and functions, daily activities and social participation, while recognizing the role of e...

    Refers to the help children with disabilities receive with personal care (e.g. bathing, dressing or feeding) and moving about within the home.

    Refers to a person or a group of persons (other than foreign residents), who occupy the same dwelling and do not have a usual place of residence elsewhere in Canada. It may consist of a family group (census family) with or without other non-family persons, of two or more families sharing a dwelling, of a group of unrelated persons, or of one person...

    The total income of a household is the sum of the total incomes of all members of that household before tax.

    The median income of a specified group of households is that amount which divides their income size distribution into two halves. That is, the incomes of the first half of households are below the median, while those of the second half are above the median. Median incomes of households are normally calculated for all units in the specified group, w...

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  3. In every province, close to one-third of parents of children with disabilities reported difficulty in receiving special education services. The proportion was highest in Ontario, where the largest number of children with disabilities lived in 2001.

  4. Canada has ratified two United Nations treaties with specific provisions for children with disabilities: the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). However, implementation and monitoring of both are limited1.

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  5. This means that the programs that students with disabilities receive, must be comparable to the services that are normally available to other students. Education is the protected public service; special education is how students with disabilities receive the general education services available to all students.

  6. Feb 20, 2018 · Strategies to Promote Home and School Relationships Surrounding a Child with a Disability. Next to parents, teachers spend the most time with school-aged children (Hall, 2009). Teachers are responsible for the education and programming for children who are considered exceptional learners.

  7. Nov 9, 2021 · NEW YORK, 10 November 2021 – The number of children with disabilities globally is estimated at almost 240 million, according to a new UNICEF report. Children with disabilities are disadvantaged compared to children without disabilities on most measures of child well-being, the report says.